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April 17, 2013

Remember the dead, fight for the living at vigil and rally

Workers’ Memorial Day is an international day of remembrance for workers who have lost their lives on the job. Please join us outside the NC Department of Labor to call for safe jobs for North Carolina workers.

North Carolina must do better

In 2011, according to preliminary numbers by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 78,000 cases of workplace injury or related illness. In that one year, 148 workers went to work for a paycheck but instead paid for doing so with their lives.

How many workplace fatalities or injuries and illnesses could have been prevented had unsafe working conditions been identified by a paid inspector?

With only 99 paid inspectors in North Carolina, it would take 59 years to inspect each workplace just once.

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The North Carolina State AFL-CIO is the largest association of local unions and union councils in North Carolina, representing over one-hundred and forty-thousand union members, fighting for good jobs, safe workplaces, workers’ rights, consumer protections, and quality public services on behalf of ALL working people.